Hon. Dikgang Moseneke | Robert R. Wilson Distinguished Lecture

“One of the lessons I had to take in: I was born a slave, I better not die a slave. I had to be my own liberator." Dikgang Moseneke, a South African freedom fighter, became Deputy Chief Justice and helped draft the country’s interim constitution after the fall of the apartheid government.
Moseneke spoke to a packed house at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He gave the Robert R. Wilson Distinguished Lecture in conversation with Catherine Admay, lecturer in public policy, and Karin Shapiro, associate professor of the practice of African and African American Studies. Both professors were born and raised in South Africa.
Before the lecture started, members of Duke’s Amandla Chorus welcomed Moseneke with a rendition of the South African national anthem, "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika.” They were introduced by chorus member Zhuri Bryant PPS’22.
Moseneke was arrested at age 15 for opposing apartheid, the South African system of racial segregation and oppression. He was incarcerated at Robben Island, Cape Town, alongside fellow political prisoners Nelson Mandela and Jacob Zuma.
The Robert R. Wilson Distinguished Lecture is co-hosted by the Office of the Provost, the Sanford School of Public Policy, and the Duke Law School. The event is part of Duke's 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration.
READ: Student Voices - Listening and Learning from Freedom Fighter Dikgang Moseneke
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[@bjpilane1477]

My name is B.J.Pilane, a short term coprisoner with the honorable deputy Chief Justice on Robben Island.
I served three years, he ten, we met again on the Island attending a birthday party of the first democratic president of S.A in 1995.
All fellow prisoners of of the former deputy judge were released long before him; when I thought of him, after my release, it pained me much.
I followed his progress as he acquired degree after degree and it pleased me much.
I also read his biography and it makes me exceedingly proud of him. God has been very kind to him. I am resident in Tlhabane Rustenburg.
May God bless him for the part he still plays for the miserable state of his fellow black community in SCOTLAND. S.A.

[@beckyphala5436]

Ntate Moseneke is a brilliant African. Truly inspirational

[@letitiamudzingaidzwa7790]

Our African Pride
Well remembered for the Life Esidimeni .Honorable

[@albenolptyltd6417]

I feel the interviewers were not prepared for this Honorable.. They couldve dug deep on his Intelligence

[@Mr300millz]

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